Dissecting a poem in German, can a native speaker help?

[admylin]

If you can help we're really stuck. Dd has to dissect this poem:

Feuerwoge jeder Hügel,
Grünes Feuer jeder Strauch,
Rührt der Wind die Flammenhügel,
Wölkt der Staub wie goldner Rauch.

That's the first verse and dd has to find all the Metaphern and write what they mean in their origional form and what they mean in the form here.
Feuerwoge is one and it means in origional Feuer and Welle. Here it means the hills. That's the example in the book. So where the heck are the others in verse 1? I guess it's goldener Rauch and Flammenhügel and maybe Grünes Feuer ..but explaining the meaning is not easy with in German.

We live in Germany and need to get a tutor soon as the level of German they are doing at school is getting too difficult for me and my Volkshochschule German.

Oh, that is difficult.

Agree with goldner Rauch - die Staub schaut nach goldnere Rauch aus.

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How are you doing, Admylin?

oh, that is difficult. I hated this kind of thing when at school...something to do with the colours of nature/light settings.

Feuerwoge jeder Hügel,
Grünes Feuer jeder Strauch,
Rührt der Wind die Flammenhügel,
Wölkt der Staub wie goldner Rauch.

wow not easy, I had to read it several times and I am a native speaker!

This is a wild stab in the dark regarding the meaning but I wonder if it could describe a landscape of hills during sunset? the meaning would be sth like

every hill is a wave of fire
every bush is green fire
when the wind moves the hills of fire
the dust whirls like golden smoke

if you just take it literally, it seems to describe the hills with bushes on it as a landscape of fire, and the dust appearing as smoke, and I don't see why you would make such a description unless you are talking about sunset or sunrise. could be completely wrong.

Thanks everyone, we managed it with the help of a German student, who also said it was far too difficult for a year 6 pupil.

He's a young, new teacher and I think he's abit ambitious!

year 6?!?
We were given stuff like that in "Leistungskurs" year 11-13...and I had a really hard time of it.

very ambitious.

Another German native speaker here. Wow, that is really difficult and I would not imagine a typical 6th grader able to do this. So yes, the teacher seems very ambitious indeed .